# RETRACTION: Risk Factors Related to Surgical Wound Infection After Caesarean Section: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

## TL;DR

A paper about risk factors for surgical wound infections after C-sections was retracted due to a compromised peer review and text overlap with another article.

## Contribution

The paper was retracted for ethical issues including text overlap and a flawed peer review process.

## Key findings

- The article was retracted due to a compromised peer review process.
- Significant unattributed textual overlap was found with a previously published article.

## Abstract

RETRACTION:

ZhuD.
,
WuY.
,
FanL.
, and
LiuX.
, “Risk Factors Related to Surgical Wound Infection After Caesarean Section: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis,” International Wound Journal
21, no. 2 (2024): e14580, 10.1111/iwj.14580.

The above article, published online on 31 January 2024, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Following an investigation by the publisher, all parties have concluded that this article was accepted solely on the basis of a compromised peer review process. In addition, the investigation found there was significant unattributed textual overlap between this article and a previously published article (Yang et al. 2023 [https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.14420]). The editors have therefore decided to retract the article. The authors disagree with the retraction.